QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

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UNIT 3: Interactions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. The interaction picture
  2. Scattering theory and the S-matrix
  3. Wick's theorem
  4. Feynman diagrams
  5. Counterterms
  6. Reaction rates
  7. Crossing symmetry and relations
  8. Unitarity
  9. Dispersion relations
  10. Statistical Mechanics
  11. Renormalization
  12. Higher-order radiative corrections
  13. Green functions
  14. Vacuum expectation values

REFERENCES

  1. Peskin, Chapter 4.
  2. Ramond, Chapter IV.
  3. Weinberg, Chapter 6.
  4. Itzykson and Zuber, selected topics in Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8.

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